by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 25, 2020 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Other
Greek Cuisine This easy pitta bread recipe are the ones I made on a Greek Cuisine course I went on with my husband at Claverham College. One of the things we made were these home made pitta bread. I think you will be able to see from the picture that they are pillowy,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 22, 2020 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Puddings / Desserts
I made these rather wonderful easy poached pears without wine today when we had guests for lunch. I thought I’d see if I could frugalise the recipe. I have described these as with no alcohol, although I realise that the process of simmering a wine based...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 20, 2020 | My Diary
This Weeks Meal Plan Monday – Mint & Lemon Pasta Pesto. I wanted to use mint from the garden. I made something similar to this Sage, Lemon and Pumpkin Seed. The mint is rampant in the garden, and I picked all the tender top shoots off, added some lemon...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 15, 2020 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Sides
I have been doing tandoori chicken quite often lately. A very easy dish, that is just diced chicken, tossed in tandoori spice, and pan fried in a little oil, just enough so it doesn’t stick Normally, I do an Indian spiced vegetable rice to have with it. But this...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 14, 2020 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
These recipes are from readers of the Facebook Group, a very creative community. The cakes are to die for! Dark Chocolate and Orange Cake Bakewell cake Lemon Curd Swiss Roll Daily Bread Almond and cherry cake Slush Puppies Chocolate Concrete Chocolate Cake Cheese...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 13, 2020 | My Diary
Time for an update, haven’t done one for a while Horrible Jobs We’ve been painting in the new loft conversion for a couple of weeks. There is much to do still, what with wardrobes, multiple shelving and architraves. I loath painting with a passion! I would...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 10, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners
Puchka tart. What’s that? Complete deliciousness on a plate, that’s what The U3A cooking group met at my house this week. When wondering what to make, I thought, like last December, we could make some canapés. There are hundreds of canapé recipes, so after a bit of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 7, 2020 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
I love baked oats and have made many a different variation of a baked oats recipe. Having tried a dozen or so sweet versions, I began to wonder about savoury baked oats. A bit of Googling later and I realised that it wasn’t really a big thing. However, I was...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 29, 2020 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Was poking about in the Armageddon cupboard today whilst writing a meal plan for next week and trying to use some existing stocks. While poking about and mentally constructing meals, I decided to use some popcorn. Idly reading the instructions, I noticed that it could...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 26, 2020 | All Recipes, Other
If you would like to make your own home made jam, but have never tackled it before, this is a great one to start with as it’s one of the easiest. Having said that, raw blackcurrants are hard to find in the shops. I am lucky enough to be able to grow some in the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 8, 2020 | Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Made Broccoli and Lentil Soup for lunch today and had no bread left at all, so made some of these cheapy bread rolls. I just use ordinary own brand self raising flour. I tried it many moons ago to see if it would work, and it was fine, so I don’t bother with...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 12, 2020 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
I’ve updated this post a bit to make it look better. But the images come from the time when I did this experiment, in 2013, and they aren’t very good. I’ll try and repeat everything and take better pictures. Chocolate Fudge Cake, made with or without...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 6, 2020 | My Diary
It’s ages since I’ve done a catchup post. I’m trying to update lots of recipe posts to make them look nicer and be more usable, bring back cheap family recipes from the dead with all the recipe loading that involves, and I’m just starting doing...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 3, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
These peanut butter noodles don’t take too long and are really yummy, we’ve had them several times now. You can really stretch out a few shreds of chicken with this. I’ve done it with noodles and spaghetti, both worked well. Ingredients for Peanut Butter Noodles...
